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HUL290

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HUL290
Technology and Culture
Credits 4
Structure 3-1-0
Pre-requisites NLN101
Overlaps

HUL290 : Technology and Culture

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To examine the relationship between technology and culture through a consideration of modern/current developments in various specific areas: e.g. Biotechnology and Medicine, IT, AI & Robotics, Fashion Technology, Magic Technology, Communications, Defense and Space Research. To focus on the roles played by the IITs themselves in creating ‘knowledge societies' - that is, in influencing, formulating and envisioning the links between technological ‘solutions' and socio-cultural ‘problems' especially in the Indian context. Here we Courses of Study 2024-2025 Humanities and Social Sciences 213will discuss, for example: Patent Laws, Gender Issues, Environmental Ethics, Design(er) and Person(al) Technological Aesthetics, Technologies for the Disabled, Educational Technologies.